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The Black Diamond apple (Chinese: gāla guǒ; 嘎啦果) is a rare breed from the family of Huaniu apples that is cultivated in the Tibetan region of Nyingchi. Despite what the name suggests, the apple rather is a purple hue, with white pulp on the inside. Its unique color is due to the region's high altitude of over 3,500 m.
Black Diamond apples are a rare variety from the family of Hua Niu apples (also known as the Chinese Red Delicious). The name is a little misleading because they aren't exactly black, but rather a dark hue of purple.
Named for its dark skin color, the Black Diamond apple breaks the red-and-green rules for most of the apples we see and eat. Though you might think this fruit resembles something from a fairy tale, we can assure you that black apples are real and safe to eat.
The Green Dragon™ apple is a light, sweet, low-acid apple with a yellow/ green skin that is a favorite in Asia, where it traces its mysterious parentage to Japan in the 1920s. The name was inspired by the Chinese ancient symbol for royalty.
RAINBOW was thought to have become extinct, but Carlos Manning discovered this tree in a small town near his home. According to Lee Calhoun, it was a Missouri apple sold by Stark Bros. Nursery around 1900, and was listed by a Virginia nursery from 1898 to 1901 as a dessert apple.
Sistema said that the ghost apple phenomenon is so rare because it requires very specific weather conditions; it must be cold enough to stop the ice melting, but warm enough to rot the apples and turn them into mush.
Golden delicious apples have thin yellow or gold skin with white to pale yellow flesh that is relatively soft and moderately sweet.
'Golden Delicious' is a cultivar of apple. It is one of the 15 most popular apple cultivars in the United States. It is not closely related to 'Red Delicious'.
Black Diamond apples look like something the Evil Queen would've given to Snow White. However, this dark fruit is not poisonous — but it is exceedingly rare. That's because it requires unique growing conditions that only exist in remote areas of the world.
A new unique apple variety from Zaiger Genetics, Ghost apple is in a category by itself. These white skinned, white flesh apples have a sweet sub-acid flavor. This is a heat-loving apple that ripens in early July.
#GhostApples. It's an unusual phenomenon where freezing rain coats rotting apples before they fall, then when the apple turns mushy it eventually slips out and leaves the icy shell still hanging on the tree.
Guava plant is considered to the process of the biological activity and medicinal application of guava so thatthe fruit considered as the poor man apple of tropics.
Davis's project aims to incorporate Wikipedia into the apple genome. For this purpose, he plans to use the world's oldest known apple, a 4000-year-old variety of M. sieversii. This isn't as far-fetched as it sounds.
The Bloody Ploughman was first recorded in 1883. It originates from the Carse of Gowrie, Scotland. It is a medium to large apple, flat-round in shape, with ribs. It has dark red skin, when ripe the crisp, juicy flesh can be stained pink.
Unlike normal golden apples, enchanted golden apples are uncraftable. The chances of finding enchanted golden apples are very low.
They were discovered in 1999, tested in 63 orchards throughout Europe and the Mediterranean for 12 years, and introduced to the US market in 2010. Today, Opal apples are grown exclusively at Broetje Orchards in Prescott, WA.
Syzygium forte, commonly known as flaky-barked satinash, white apple or brown satinash, is a tree in the family Myrtaceae native to New Guinea and northern Australia.
Apples don't usually appear alongside words like luxurious and exotic. The black diamond apple is an exception. It's rarely sold at American grocery stores—or even specialty farmers' markets, for that matter—and when it is it can cost upwards of $7.
One of the first apples picked each August, Ginger Gold is attractive, aromatic and has a gingery-sweet to mildly tart flavor. Ginger Gold apples are bright golden-green with flesh that is fine-textured, crisp and creamy white. This apple is great for snacks, salads and especially baking in pies.
It is a hybrid of fuji, golden and honeycrisp. This new variety is resistant to browning and is described as being on the tart side. The apple is starchy right off the tree so it is harvested in September and October and stored until they are packed in January and February.
The Honeycrisp was created in 1960 at the University of Minnesota through apple cross-breeding and released in 1991, marking the start of a tree-fruit phenomenon. Thanks to a genetic variation, Honeycrisp cells are twice the size of most other apples, resulting in its signature, addictive crunch.
Star apples, botanically classified as Chrysophyllum cainito, are rare fruits belonging to the Sapotaceae family.